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It’s their heads or their hearts. Maybe both. Either way, the Blackhawks are stinking it up these days. Get them a brain scan. Schedule an EKG. Figure it out because the Hawks apparently are incapable of preparing properly for a game and are equally bad when it comes to competing for 60 minutes. They’re playing like head cases. Or maybe heart attack victims. Not Stanley Cup contenders, that’s for sure. The first reaction is to say they need to make some deals. The sorry-looking bunch that submitted to a Bears-like national pantsing from the Bruins on Sunday could use two defensemen and two forwards. I’m all for anything that stops coach Joel Quenneville from...

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It’s their heads or their hearts. Maybe both.
Either way, the Blackhawks are stinking it up these days. Get them a brain scan. Schedule an EKG. Figure it out because the Hawks apparently are incapable of preparing properly for a game and are equally...

The Blackhawks’ defensive depth — or lack of it — is in for a test as Johnny Oduya will be sidelined for a significant period of time.
Oduya suffered an upper-body injury during the first period of the Hawks’ 6-2 loss to the Bruins on Sunday and coach...

With derision the Blackhawks deserved after sleepwalking through the first two periods of Sunday's 6-2 loss to the Bruins, the United Center crowd of 22,104 booed perhaps the worst performance witnessed all winter in this building.
And that's saying...

The minutes following the Blackhawks' trouncing at the hands of the Bruins on Sunday afternoon ticked away before the dressing room was finally opened to the media.
Nearly 15 minutes after being annihilated 6-2 by the struggling Bruins, every member of...

Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville took a long look at his power play, then moved one goal to the corner of the ice and put his players through battle drills for a loose puck along the boards. No one is pressing the panic button in Chicago, which won the...

CHICAGO Mike Babcock wanted to see his players elevate their game, to respond to the increased tempo of NHL hockey as spring beckons. He got it. The Detroit Red Wings entered Wednesday against the Chicago Blackhawks at United Center on a...

Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane kicked it off for Chicago, and Patrick Sharp finished the job. The star-studded shootout turned into quite a show for the Blackhawks. Sharp scored the decisive goal in the tiebreaker, lifting the Blackhawks to a 2-1 victory...

The Canucks had just blown a two-goal lead when the puck dropped for overtime. The Chicago Blackhawks had all the momentum, and were looking for an unlikely victory. That's when the Sedin brothers connected for a big goal for Vancouver. Henrik Sedin got...

WINNIPEG — Noted philosopher Daniel Carcillo opined that the Blackhawks were focusing on "getting their swag back" when they faced the Jets in a key Central Division showdown Friday night.
Thanks to the king of swag — Patrick Kane — consider it...

ST. PAUL, Minn. Too bad the Wild sits idle for the next three days because it has discovered its long lost October mojo. Coming off a three-game western Canadian sweep, there would be no first-game-after-a-long-road-trip blues Tuesday night as the...

The summary
Former Blackhawks winger Troy Brouwer came back to haunt his old teammates when he scored with 12.9 seconds left in the third period Thursday to give the Capitals a 3-2 victory in the 2015 Winter Classic at Nationals Park in Washington.
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Stan Bowman graduated from Notre Dame in 1995 with a degree in finance.That has come in handy during the NHL's salary-cap era as the Blackhawks general manager perhaps more than anyone in the league the last few seasons has had to work the numbers hard to...

In predicted order of finish
Pacific Division
1. KINGS
2013-14: 46-28-8 (100 points), 3rd.
Coach Darryl Sutter wants more from the kids, and wingers Tyler Toffoli and Tanner Pearson look ready to deliver. Sutter also will have a full season of...

One goal.
It's not just a marketing slogan, it's also what kept the Blackhawks from being an NHL dynasty.
Not all losses are created equal and Exhibit A was the Hawks' gut-wrenching 5-4 defeat in overtime to the Kings in Game 7 of the Western Conference...

Your best players have to be your best players. That’s a Stanley Cup playoff mantra. A playoff rule.
Problem was, most of the Blackhawks best players were their worst when it mattered most in Game 4 of their Western Conference finals.
That starts with...

Free of the quicksand they had to slog through during the second round against the Wild, the Blackhawks had room to roam against the Kings in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals — and they used it.
The Hawks re-engaged their speed game, recovered...

The Blackhawks have 10 Olympians on their playoff roster for the Western Conference finals, and Kings second-liners Jeff Carter, Tyler Toffoli and Tanner Pearson are owning them. Owning every shift. Owning this series.
Carter and young wingers kids are...

The defending Stanley Cup champions are still breathing and chasing history.
The Blackhawks willed themselves to a 5-4 victory over the Kings in double overtime in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals Wednesday night at the United Center to keep their...

LOS ANGELES -- Even a veteran coach has to admit his feelings before a potential Stanley Cup playoffs elimination game.
"I get a little nervous," Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said Friday night at the Staples Center, a few hours before...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Brent Seabrook fired the puck around the boards where it struck a stanchion and wobbled into the slot.
Blackhawks teammate Peter Regin, engaged in battle with the Wild's Ryan Suter, skated over the rubber disc and for a brief moment,...